Cannabis Infighting

Many people who remember the 1972 [marijuana legalization] initiative in California, which lost with 34% of the vote, muse nostalgically about how great it would have been if that initiative had passed … how it would have changed the whole course of events, especially in the midst of President Nixon’s administration. But have you read that initiative? It was inferior to this year’s initiative in California.

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